Kerstin H Wyssusek, Christine A Woods, Emily T Minard, Julie Lee, Anita Pelecanos, Paul Gray
{"title":"A cross-sectional study of the relationship between iron deficiency anaemia and chronic pain.","authors":"Kerstin H Wyssusek, Christine A Woods, Emily T Minard, Julie Lee, Anita Pelecanos, Paul Gray","doi":"10.1177/0310057X241263612","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0310057X241263612","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia are frequently under-recognised in chronic conditions with non-specific symptoms, including fatigue. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of iron deficiency with or without anaemia in chronic pain patients, and the association between iron deficiency status, fatigue and health-related quality of life. Eighty-two patients attending chronic pain outpatient appointments were recruited into this cross-sectional study. Iron studies and haemoglobin were determined from venous blood samples. Participants' health-related quality of life was assessed with the 36-item short form survey and fatigue with the functional assessment of chronic illness therapy fatigue scale. Iron deficiency was prevalent in 58.8% of patients and 2.5% met the criteria for iron deficiency anaemia. There was no significant association between iron deficiency status and the functional assessment of chronic illness therapy fatigue scale score or 36-item short form survey domain scores. There was a high prevalence of iron deficiency in this group of chronic pain patients, while the prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia was low. There was no statistically significant association found between iron deficiency status and fatigue or quality of life measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":7746,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia and Intensive Care","volume":" ","pages":"369-376"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142131647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fran Lalor, Shanel L Cameron, Tanya Selak, Stefan Jm Dieleman
{"title":"Maximising environmental sustainability on the return to in-person conferencing: Report from a 2500-person anaesthesia meeting in Sydney, Australia.","authors":"Fran Lalor, Shanel L Cameron, Tanya Selak, Stefan Jm Dieleman","doi":"10.1177/0310057X241264576","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0310057X241264576","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted medical conferences, where restrictions on public gatherings resulted in the postponement or cancellation of in-person meetings. Virtual events emerged as a substitute, providing a mechanism for scientific collaboration and continuing medical education with the additional benefit of low environmental impact. However, digital events may not meet all the needs of delegates, such as professional networking and social connection. In this report, we describe the methods used to minimise the carbon footprint of the 2023 Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists' Annual Scientific Meeting, a conference with approximately 2000 in-person and 500 virtual delegates. A core group led the initiative, with all conference participants invited to contribute to this goal. A prospective prediction of carbon generation was undertaken, followed by the implementation of strategies to minimise and then measure the total carbon footprint of the event. Post-event calculations assessed the conference as better than carbon-neutral; however, delegate travel was not included in the analysis and therefore this result is tempered. Off-site workshops including virtual offerings were also not included in the analysis. We encourage medical conference organisers to collaborate with all stakeholders to embed low carbon-generation choices for their meetings where education, networking and social needs are also met.</p>","PeriodicalId":7746,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia and Intensive Care","volume":" ","pages":"351-355"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142131649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two episodes of delayed emergence in a healthy young man.","authors":"James R Nielsen, Anil Keshava","doi":"10.1177/0310057X241275126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0310057X241275126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7746,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia and Intensive Care","volume":" ","pages":"310057X241275126"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142456187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Raphael Laurent, Eva Kardous, Oumar R Diallo, Charles Collet, Hervé Benateau, René Allary, Florent Baudin
{"title":"Fibreoptic intubation in children and young people in resource-limited settings: A case series during a humanitarian aid operation in Guinea.","authors":"Raphael Laurent, Eva Kardous, Oumar R Diallo, Charles Collet, Hervé Benateau, René Allary, Florent Baudin","doi":"10.1177/0310057X241272111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0310057X241272111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7746,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia and Intensive Care","volume":" ","pages":"310057X241272111"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142456182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mimicking the Eleveld propofol target-controlled infusion model using the Marsh model with weight adjustment in a super-obese patient.","authors":"George Zhong, Sarah J Wong","doi":"10.1177/0310057X241275122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0310057X241275122","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7746,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia and Intensive Care","volume":" ","pages":"310057X241275122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142279296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of enhanced recovery room care models.","authors":"Guy L Ludbrook, Nick Koning, Tarik Sammour","doi":"10.1177/0310057X241275110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0310057X241275110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7746,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia and Intensive Care","volume":" ","pages":"310057X241275110"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142279295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adrian C Mattke,Kerry E Johnson,Krishanti Ariyawansa,Peter Trnka,Prem S Venugopal,David Coman,Andreas Schibler,Kristen Gibbons
{"title":"Urinary chloride excretion in critical illness and acute kidney injury: a paediatric hypothesis-generating cohort study post cardiopulmonary bypass surgery.","authors":"Adrian C Mattke,Kerry E Johnson,Krishanti Ariyawansa,Peter Trnka,Prem S Venugopal,David Coman,Andreas Schibler,Kristen Gibbons","doi":"10.1177/0310057x241265119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0310057x241265119","url":null,"abstract":"Renal chloride metabolism is currently poorly understood but may serve as both a diagnostic and a treatment approach for acute kidney injury. We investigated whether plasma chloride, ammonia and glutamine as well as urinary chloride, ammonium and glutamine concentrations may serve as markers for acute kidney injury in paediatric patients. We conducted a prospective observational trial in a tertiary care paediatric intensive care unit. Ninety-one patients after cardiopulmonary bypass surgery were enrolled. Plasma glutamine, creatinine, (serum) albumin, urinary electrolytes and glutamine were collected pre-cardiopulmonary bypass surgery, at paediatric intensive care unit admission, and at 6, 12, 24, 48 and 72 h after paediatric intensive care unit admission. The urinary strong ion difference was calculated. The median urinary chloride excretion decreased from 51 mmol/L pre-cardiopulmonary bypass to 25 mmol/L at paediatric intensive care unit admission, and increased from 24 h onwards. Patients with acute kidney injury had lower urinary chloride excretion than those without. The median urinary strong ion difference was 59 mmol/L pre-cardiopulmonary bypass, rose to 131 mmol/L at 24 h and fell to 20 mmol/L at 72 h. The plasma chloride rose from 105 mmol/L pre-cardiopulmonary bypass to a maximum of 109 mmol/L at 24 h. At 24 h the plasma chloride concentration was associated with the presence of acute kidney injury. There was no association between plasma or urinary amino acids and chloride excretion or kidney injury. In conclusion, renal chloride excretion decreased in all patients, although this decrease was more pronounced in patients with acute kidney injury. Our findings may reflect a response of the kidneys to critical illness, and acute kidney injury may make these changes more pronounced. Targeting chloride metabolism may offer treatment approaches to acute kidney injury.","PeriodicalId":7746,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia and Intensive Care","volume":"8 1","pages":"310057X241265119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142196317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth P Hu, Hayden Burch, Eugenie Kayak, Forbes McGain
{"title":"Variations of nitrous oxide procurement per public hospital bed between Australian states and territories: A cross-sectional analysis.","authors":"Elizabeth P Hu, Hayden Burch, Eugenie Kayak, Forbes McGain","doi":"10.1177/0310057X241262796","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0310057X241262796","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We aimed to identify variations in nitrous oxide (N<sub>2</sub>O) procurement between Australian states and territories per public hospital bed by undertaking a cross-sectional analysis of N<sub>2</sub>O procurement data for all Australian public hospitals from 1 January 2017 to 30 June 2022. Data were obtained from state and territory departments of health. All Australian public hospitals across six states and two territories were included. We obtained N<sub>2</sub>O procurement data from Department of Health representatives from all states and territories, accounting for all 697 Australian public hospitals and four public dental hospitals. The main outcome measured in this study was N<sub>2</sub>O procurement per public hospital bed by state or territory. Across the 5 years (1 January 2017 to 30 June 2022) an average of 242,054 (standard deviation (SD) 16,222) kg of N<sub>2</sub>O, equivalent to 64,144 (4299) tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions (CO<sub>2</sub>e), were procured per annum. CO<sub>2</sub>e emissions from N<sub>2</sub>O purchase varied more than threefold per public hospital bed between different states/territories (0.47-1.48 CO<sub>2</sub>e tonnes per hospital bed). There were significant variations in N<sub>2</sub>O procurement between Australian states and territories when adjusted for public hospital bed numbers. Further analysis of this variation to determine cause and to guide mitigation interventions is therefore warranted.</p>","PeriodicalId":7746,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia and Intensive Care","volume":" ","pages":"321-327"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11484155/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142103613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The nature of the response to airway management incident reports in high income countries: A scoping review.","authors":"Yasmin Endlich, Ellen L Davies, Janet Kelly","doi":"10.1177/0310057X241227238","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0310057X241227238","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adverse events associated with failed airway management may have catastrophic consequences, and despite many advances in knowledge, guidelines and equipment, airway incidents and patient harm continue to occur. Patient safety incident reporting systems have been established to facilitate a reduction in incidents. However, it has been found that corrective actions are inadequate and successful safety improvements scarce. The aim of this scoping review was to assess whether the same is true for airway incidents by exploring academic literature that describes system changes in airway management in high-income countries over the last 30 years, based on findings and recommendations from incident reports and closed claims studies. This review followed the most recent guidance from the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE and Embase, the JBI database, SCOPUS, the Cochrane Library and websites for anaesthetic societies were searched for eligible articles. Included articles were analysed and data synthesised to address the review's aim. The initial search yielded 28,492 results, of which 111 articles proceeded to the analysis phase. These included 23 full-text articles, 78 conference abstracts and 10 national guidelines addressing a range of airway initiatives across anaesthesia, intensive care and emergency medicine. While findings and recommendations from airway incident analyses are commonly published, there is a gap in the literature regarding the resulting system changes to reduce the number and severity of adverse airway events. Airway safety management mainly focuses on Safety-I events and thereby does not consider Safety-II principles, potentially missing out on all the information available from situations where airway management went well.</p>","PeriodicalId":7746,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia and Intensive Care","volume":" ","pages":"283-301"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142103612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nellie Dick, Jacqueline H Byrne, Debbie L Massey, Kersi J Taraporewalla
{"title":"Just-in-time training for nasotracheal intubation: A report of a pilot study.","authors":"Nellie Dick, Jacqueline H Byrne, Debbie L Massey, Kersi J Taraporewalla","doi":"10.1177/0310057X241261389","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0310057X241261389","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7746,"journal":{"name":"Anaesthesia and Intensive Care","volume":" ","pages":"340-341"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142124584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}